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anniversaries january
 January 17
Maria Absam, Absam, Tirol, Austria
On the evening of January 17, 1797, Rosina Buecher, 18, was sewing at the dining table when she had an attack of fear for her father at work in the salt mines. Looking out the
window, she was astonished to see the calm face of a woman in the pane, looking in at her. Rosina, her mother, and shortly the parish priest and neighbors, all identified the face
as a portrait of the Virgin Mary, miraculously formed in the glass. Then her father and brother came home from work, having narrowly escaped a mine disaster. Tests ordered by the
priest showed the image to be of indeterminable origin; it vanished underwater and reappeared when dry. With the bishop's approval, the Buechers gave the windowpane to the local
Church of St. Michael. Pilgrims began coming and giving thanks for healings through St. Mary of Absam, whose simple 5x7" image still surprises the viewer, gazing out from an
elaborate golden frame.
Sources:
 | "Shrine of Our Lady of Absam, Austria,"
www.sacred-destinations.com/austria |
| austria-catholica.blogspot.com/2007/03/das-gnadenbild-maria-absam.html.) |
Also celebrated this date:
| Notre-Dame de la Prière,
Pontmain, Mayenne, Pays de la Loire, France (Our Lady of Prayer).
Apparition, 1871. |
| Nostra
Signora della Fortuna, Genoa, Italy. Statue washed up in storm, 1636. |
| Santa Maria dei Lumi, San Severino Marche, Macerata, Marche, Italy
(St. Mary of the Lights). Festivities on nearest Sunday commemorate lights
seen around painting on garden wall in the night of January 16-17, 1584. |
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